The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) launched a major operation early Tuesday morning against an international drug trafficking organization operating between Catalonia and Italy. According to sources consulted by ARA, the gang primarily dealt in large quantities of cocaine, although they also handled other drugs such as marijuana and hashish. As is typical, Barcelona was the point of arrival for the drugs, and the gang then transported them to various Italian cities where the buyers were located. This newspaper has learned that the gang's leader has already been arrested in Barcelona. The Mossos expect to make approximately ten more arrests. Officers are currently raiding several apartments in Barcelona and Hospitalet de Llobregat. They anticipate carrying out up to nine searches. The police force has deployed around 150 officers, including members of the DIC (Criminal Investigation Division), the Central Unit, the ARRO (Rapid Response Unit), the BRIMO (Mobile Intervention Brigade), the canine unit, and the drone unit. The case is under seal.

A child remains hospitalized with serious injuries after falling from a hotel in Hospitalet de Llobregat on Sunday. The child, between five and six years old, fell approximately eight meters. He sustained multiple injuries and was initially unconscious, according to sources consulted by ARA, although no internal bleeding was detected. The incident occurred early Sunday morning, around 4:00 AM, at the Hyatt Regency Barcelona Tower Hotel. His family was celebrating a wedding in the same building, and according to initial reports, the child went to play with another child in a designated area of ​​the hotel. At that moment, the child apparently lifted a grate covering a hole and fell. The Emergency Medical Services activated five ambulances, which treated and transported the child in critical condition to Sant Joan de Déu Hospital.

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat will be the site of the pilot test of a system that aims to eliminate the business of reselling appointments for immigration proceduresThis is a model that will automate the scheduling of appointments for the process, making it easier for users to obtain one. The system has already been successfully tested in Castellón and Girona, and the goal is to gradually expand and implement it throughout Spain. While the trial is underway, when a resident of Hospitalet's immigration application is approved, the notification will inform them that they will no longer need to schedule an appointment to obtain their Foreigner's Identity Card (TIE), as has been the practice until now. The difference from now on is that, a few days later, they will receive a text message or email assigning them a date and time to complete the procedure at the National Police station. They will also receive a reminder the day before the appointment. In fact, the first steps of this trial have already been taken. The first notifications informing users that they would receive an automated appointment were sent on Monday, January 12. A week later, on Monday the 19th, users received the first messages with their appointments. The first date they have been summoned for is next Monday, February 2.

The Public Prosecutor's Office has asked the Barcelona Provincial Court to sentence a basketball coach from the Catholic Center of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat to 43 and a half years in prison, accusing him of sexually assaulting three of his players, aged between 14 and 15, when he was 20 years old. They are also seeking a ban on working with minors. The prosecution's indictment dates back to the 2017-2018 season. The coach was well-regarded and had a close relationship with the players on his team, the prosecution explains. During Holy Week in 2018, the entire team spent several days in Coma-ruga, in El Vendrell, to play in a tournament. The prosecution alleges that the first assault occurred on the last night the team stayed at a hotel in the town. According to the prosecutor, that night the coach sent a WhatsApp He approached one of the teenagers and told her to go to his room. There, he offered her rum and cola, and the young woman fell into a "semi-conscious state that prevented her from remembering almost anything until the following morning." During the night, the prosecution alleges, the coach took advantage of the girl's intoxication to have sex with her until she fell asleep. In the morning, she was dizzy and had difficulty walking, and he told her to go back to his room and not to tell anyone what had happened.

In recent years she has gone "from being Quimet Pla's daughter to Oriol Pla's sister" [the protagonist of theNow Sunday of this week]"She confirms, but Diana Pla Solina (Barcelona, ​​1991) has forged her own path in the world of physical theatre and circus. After performing since childhood in street shows and in plays such as Travy, after creating his own company and a single as Miss Things and MePla now directs El Petit Circ Laret, a newly created and free show that can be seen from December 12 to January 7 in the Christmas Circus tent in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Feixa Llarga street at the corner of Travessia Industrial). A classic circus – with Chinese pole vaulting, acrobatic bicycle, trapeze, hand-to-hand acrobatics, balancing acts, live music, and clowning – with a contemporary spirit.

Her name was Neus, and she was about 80 years old. She lived in her lifelong apartment with her son, who was about 54. It was a mezzanine apartment on Llobregat Street in L'Hospitalet. Living together wasn't easy, according to people close to her. Shouting and insults were often heard, which had even led to police intervention on occasion. This Tuesday, a few minutes before 1:00 a.m., neighbors heard a loud crash that made them look out their windows: they saw Neus lying on the ground in the street and called emergency services. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) are investigating the incident as a case of domestic violence. The main police hypothesis is that the woman fell from her apartment window. After being taken to the hospital, she died from her injuries. Police had opened an investigation to determine whether it was a homicide, an accidental death, or a suicide, and police sources confirm to ARA that it is the first option. For this reason, police questioned the son, who was subsequently arrested as the suspected perpetrator of his mother's murder. According to sources close to the investigation, the son may have diagnosed mental health problems, and his account is inconsistent. Currently, authorities are considering transferring him to a psychiatric facility. Several neighbors also reported hearing shouting and arguments between the couple. They also described how the son sometimes insulted people in the street, to the point that the woman admitted she wanted him to leave home.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested five people, two of them minors, for their alleged relationship with The murder of a minor of only sixteen years of age on September 8 on the border between Barcelona and Hospitalet de Llobregat, in front of the Santa Eulalia metro station, according to ARA. After a month and a half of investigation, the Catalan police have been able to link those arrested to the attack with knives on a group of three minors, including the deceased.

On Tuesday, a video of two girls running through the Florida neighborhood of Hospitalet de Llobregat sparked a storm of criticism online. In the footage, the young women allegedly recorded themselves doing running through the neighborhood of the Catalan city while discussing their perceptions. "This is the first episode of Running through the dangerous neighborhoods of Barcelona", they say once the exercise is over. Hundreds of internet users have called the video "classist" and "racist."

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested three young people, one of them a minor, for having attacked a controversial YouTuber in Hospitalet de Llobregat. The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon, when content creator Jan2030sinmiedo announced he would be filming in the Florida neighborhood of this town. In his videos, he often films himself walking through towns in the metropolitan area, denouncing the presence of foreigners and even spraying people with tear gas, calling them thieves and "contributors," among other insults.

The burying of the Gran Via, as it passes through L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, takes another step forward. The construction project was approved five years ago And work was due to begin imminently the following year, in 2021, but it wasn't until this Monday morning that the project was unblocked. The Generalitat (Catalan Government) and the Hospitalet City Council have reached an agreement to begin repairing this section of land between the Rambla Marina and the Llobregat River. If all goes well, the new schedule indicates that work will finally begin during the second half of next year. This is a significant project, both in terms of its economic volume and its social impact, as it aims to transform the entire Bellvitge Hospital area into the largest biomedical hub in southern Europe.

For two months the Mossos d'Esquadra were looking for a serial rapist in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat. He acted at night and usually on weekends. He chose young girls on the street and followed them to the doorway of their house, where he assaulted them. There he strangled them and threatened them verbally before raping them. The police have arrested the alleged perpetrator, a 26-year-old man of Peruvian nationality, to whom they attribute five assaults, two of which involved penetration. Some could not be consummated due to the victims' resistance.

They were from Romania but had been living for some time in a shack on a plot of land in the Poble-sec neighbourhood in Barcelona. They had no schooling and could neither read nor write. They are two underage siblings, a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy. Their family forced the girl to prostitute herself and the boy was sent to clean car windows to beg for alms in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat. The National Police and the Guardia Urbana of Barcelona have freed them in an operation in which they have arrested three relatives of the victims: one is their older sister and another their aunt.